Jesse Curtis Morton and another man encouraged attacks on show's writers over episode depicting Muhammad in a bear suit
A Muslim convert from New York has been sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison after admitting threatening the writers of South Park over their depiction of the prophet Muhammad.
Jesse Curtis Morton, 33, alias Younus Abdullah Muhammed, ran a website that encouraged Muslims to engage in violence against perceived enemies of Islam.
In February he pleaded guilty to making threatening communications, using the internet to put others in fear and using his position as leader of the Revolution Muslim organisation's websites to conspire to commit murder.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/22/man-jailed-writers-south-park
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Human beings interpret the sacred books of world religions in good and evil ways and believe they are right or because they lie to gain power or because they are afraid of another group who may belong to the same or another religion and believe "God is on my side" and so on. People can quote words from sacred books out of context to claim all sorts of things. An obvious example today is claiming the Bible condemns homosexuality. It doesn't but many ministers claim it does in their churches. We, meaning Christians, have killed each other in great numbers in the name of religion. In the time of Henry VIII in England , humans were tortured and burned at the stake for owning or sharing a copy of the Protestant Bible and fought disatrous civil wars over religion. I won't go more into what history shows, because there are so many wrong accounts that many people accept as true and it mould take a lot of time to show that, except to say that Islamic civilization has had a history of greater tolerance of other religions and fighting less wars than has the Christian civilization. Most Muslims today are not extremists and most Muslims live in democracies.